Born into an Imperial family, David followed his family's tradition of serving in the imperial navy specifically serving Aisling Duval. He served for years sharing Duval's vision of freeing the Imperial slaves and ridding the empire of narcotics leading the people into a new age. One day though David was witness to a politically motivated slavery deal being headed up by one of Aisling Duval's ships. Feeling betrayed and seeing red, he bought an old clipper named "Nomadic" from a navy scrapyard and defected his allegiance before making a break away from imperial space, opening fire on any imperial ship in his way.